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November/December 2025

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.

Nick French Oct 17, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Taxing the Top

In a world in which some people keep getting way more than they need, while others can hardly get by, Robin Hood starts to look better and better.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2025

September/October 2025

Mass Deportations Drain Economic Growth

There is no tradeoff—immigration fuels the economy.

John Miller Oct 9, 2025

November/December 2022

November/December 2022

Puerto Rico’s Perfect Storm

Arthur Macewan

Colonialism, Privatization, and Trump | Read more »
Globalization in Crisis

John Miller

Is neoliberalism on the ropes? | Read more »
Minority Checked

Robert Ovetz

Why the Inflation Reduction Act won't benefit workers or save the planet. | Read more »
Who Can Afford to Have Kids, Anyway?

Débora Nunes

Class and Reproductive Justice | Read more »

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Wage Theft as a Business Model

Saurav Sarkar

How companies are stealing tens of billions of dollars from workers each year.
Public Banking for Climate Change

Rick Girling

Replacing fossil fuels with climate-wise investing requires redesigning the financial system.

the regulars

editors’ note Power, Freedom, and the Workplace
the short run
cartoon The Right Imagines Immigration
two cents
comment The IRA, the Constitution, and Class Interests
up against the wall street journal Globalization in Crisis
in review The Building a Solidarity Society by Marianne T. Hill
economy in numbers Poverty in the United States
dr. dollar Puerto Rico's Perfect Storm